We really do need a balcony for S&W. I think it would work as a limited run Palisades Direct item.
Phil's accessories were porrly done I think. As someone else mentioned, he's all dirthy with blood or mud or something, yet all the accessories are nice and clean. Plus, they aren't even hollow so you can't add colored water of even paint to make it look like he's doing something. Then there is that stupid eggnog carton which is such a poor accessory. The ball was dropped on Phil's accessories.
While people did want more equipment for the labs set, I don't think it was fair to use Phil as an accessory pack for the labs. Phil never even brewed potion of anything like that. He hosted tails from the Vet and kept muppet creatures in cages and stuff. He SHOULD have come with a stack of cages with those muppet creatures in them. The brown ones with the big eyes seen in the Tails from the Vet sketches. It could have been one creature scupted and used three or 4 times in each cage. Then give Phill a mail bag (since he often read letters) or something. Instead, he is used as a Muppet Labs accessory pack with only one accessory that has anything to do with him, and that accessory was a stupid eggnog carton! He could have been much much better than he is.
Back to playsets, I think Palisades is making them too big and too expensive. While sets like the Kitchen, backstage, and Swine rek need to be big, I don't see why a smaller Muppet Labs sized VH set couldn't be done. Also, some characters could have mini sets. In away Sam and Marvin both come with mini sets. Sam has a speech set and Marvin has his Muppaphone mini playset. Robin had a mini playset as well. So, we are getting mini playsets.